Yay! After months of procrastination, I've finally finished my promised article on Linux DVD players, which is currently featured on the front page of freshmeat.net (URL updated as it moved off the front page :-). Hopefully I can get my act together and write more if this one goes down well :-)

Have been trying to get pygame + PyDDR to work under Mac OS X 10.2 with little success - the little dock icon opens, and then closes in a spectacular lack of fireworks or crash messages or anything really at all.
Hmm. Shall wait for a little more stability and/or ease of use in that arena I think :-)

10.2 seems to be a lot faster, and the initial crash-on-wake problems have been fixed up by the security update of early this week of all things... strange but true. And all the apps look more finished and nicer, except that Mail.app has somewhat broken the ability for me to see folders on my IMAP server that have mail fed to them by procmail on the server... anyway, suffice to say that I'm now using Entourage with its somewhat superior handling of subscribed folders. The only problem with most GUI clients is their inability to handle proper threading - if anyone has a suggestion of a good threading OS X GUI client I'm all ears!

Life

Have been feeling better this week than I have in the last three years. Huzzah for new routines and "prevention rather than cure" techniques. Getting a second (or in my case, third) doctor's opinion can be very useful. Other life is also good, with Uni group project working out very well so far (but it's been back to Java programming for me), fun parties, and generally all round good company. Yay :-)

Unfortunately, my male, Siegfried, died last night due to what we think was dehydration caused by the excessively dry weather we've been having and the fact that he had a crack in his exoskeleton. Although I misted them with water frequently, the low humidity might have been enough to tip the scales, so to speak. Oh well, RIP, Siegfried. I'll have to go and find Brunhilde a friend so that she doesn't get lonely :~(

daniels:
Talk about pot calling kettle black! You FUD projects and people yourself, which does not lend you any credibility when whinging about hypothetical FUD spread about yourself.
Did you approach ElectricElf and ask him to clarify the situation? Did you even think that it was possible for whoever it was that blurted around second-hand information to be wrong, or out to cause trouble?
If you want people to respect you and take up your offers of help with projects, juvenile behaviour such as this is not going to win you hearts.

mwh: Well, from the documentation that came
with the tibook (I had to hunt that one down :-), it says "If
your battery runs low while you are working, you can put
your PowerBook to sleep and replace the battery with a
charged one. The internal backup battery provides enough
power to maintain the contents of RAM for one minute while
you change the battery."
So there you go ;-)

(Hi, rest of advogato! I've started fostering some open
source OS X apps on freshmeat.net for people
interested. So far there's Fire.app, and hopefully more to
come.)

mwh, dobey:
my tiBook gives me approximately three minutes (the
documentation disagrees with itself as to whether it's
one or three minutes, but I know it's more than one
from experience!) to get my act together and find the
power supply.

Finally, the big project I was working through has been
launched. With only 25% of the themes processed (lousy
Window Maker having 2.6k themes) themes.freshmeat.net
is finally up and open to the public. There are still hours
of processing to go, so it'll be a looong haul, but it'll be
worth it in the end. Thanks to scoop, Ray,
Chris, and Jeff, and everyone else who helped out on the
conversion :-)

amars: Join the "saving up for a G4
Powerbook" Club! You know you want to :-) *sighs as she
looks at her bank balance*

In other, slightly weird news, I came home today with two
Giant Burrowing Cockroaches. Australian natives, these guys
are flightless and as big as your index finger. If your
index finger is as long as mine :-) They're perfectly clean
and non-disease-carrying and overall really cool pets. I
have some initial photos up here
and am currently finishing a short piece on looking after
cockroaches in general.
No, they're not ew! I promise!